I downloaded a number of the presentations and plan to send those over to catherine and her team so they can share them with the rest of the board, and wider as necessary. Earlier this week, director dodd sent as a wall street journal article. It summarized a bit of the full report of the academy of actuaries, American Academy of actuaries report, which was released on august 5. So delighted to see our actuary out there, neil, i want to tell you i went i read the full report, neil. Im going to send electronic version of that to kathryn because i think its warrant some review by all members of the board. It is in english. It is in english. Theres not a lot of formulas in it or anything else. Its really a very excellent summary of trying to find the Drivers Behind core medical inflation and the cost related to that more broadly across the country. It would be worth our while to kind of have that in our background as a prep piece, if you will, for the november form that were going to be h
Adjourn. So moved. Second. Its moved and second that we adjourn the meeting. Thank you. Meeting adjourned. [gavel] i now call the regular meeting of the Health Service board city and county of San Francisco to order. Holy stand and repeat the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] the board secretary will call the roll. Rollcall. Resident scottvp lim commissioner breslin, supervisor farrell excused commissioner rigo expected commissioneromission or sass. We have a quorum. Item number two, shifted one, im sorry jacob thank you. Item 1 action item. Approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the meeting set forth below. Together meeting of june 11, 2015. Are there any additions or edits to the minutes . I move we approve. Its been properly moved we approve the minutes is distributed and posts. Is there a second Second Chapter properly moved moved and seconded. Approve the minutes as distributed with the regular meeting of approve the minutes as distributed with the regul
That i took the time to thank each and every member of the staff of the Health Service system. It has been a consider challenging time in the past with many changes, the people, which i think continues to be challenging. And really, put will bring us great benefits but, the transition was very hard. And we have had some other challenges and i just wanted to say on behalf of the entire board, how much we appreciate the work of the staff in always being focused on what matters the most and that is the service to the members. In particular, i want to thank, lisa for her service, during the time when katherine had to be out, and she did the work, in doing two jobs, again through the contentious, but the very important work that needed to be done and we are so very grateful for the work that you did and grateful for your dedication, to all of our members, and to supporting the board through that time as well. And of course, we need to express, once again our happiness in having katherine ba
Work. Thank you for that. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, it has been moved and seconded. All in favor . Please say aye . Aye. Any nays i wanted to make an announcement that i have agreed to serve on a california Wide Health Information Exchange that is being formed right now called cal index. This is to be a very exciting opportunity for the state, to take a real step forward, blue cross and blue shield have come together, and recognized the importance of being able to share information, not just between their own members, but between and among allpro vieders within california. With the goals of improving the safety, the quality and the effectiveness, that is provided and also, trying to improve the cost effectiveness of the care that is provided, all while insuring that we maintain the privacy of patient information. I am pleased to have been asked to serve and i look forward to further the goals directors report . Okay. My report is before you, and i wanted to point out, tha
Aye. Aye. Opposed . Unanimous. Item no. 2. Item 2, discussion item president s report. As you can see we have dr. Dodd back with us today. Im happy about that. [ applause ] and in the interest of time well move on to item no. 3. Item 3, discussion item, directors report. Lisa got pee. Directors office. We are very happy to see her today. We have some very good news on the personnel front, our well ness manager is starting on december 9th. Her name is now Stephanie Fisher because she was married last week. Shell be starting december 9th as our wellness manager. We are interviewing the compliance manager and our Service Manager position closes on monday and well start interviews on that as well. We have hired an 1844 to work on our contracting team. Actually for the first time in 3 years that i have been with Health Service system, we lost one of our 1210s to mta. One of our super star ben fits analyst. Well surely miss her. Moving on to operations for beginning of december has been dela